Daily Archives: January 14, 2018

South Korea has put forward a proposal to field a joint women’s ice hockey team with North Korea at the upcoming Winter Olympics in PyeongChang.

According to South Korea’s national news agency Yonhap, vice sports minister Roh Tae-kang said the prospect of a unified team was raised at an inter-Korean meeting on Tuesday, which saw North Korea agree to send athletes to the Games.

Further working-level talks are expected next week before a meeting on January 20 at IOC headquarters in Lausanne.

“Even if we have one Korean team in women’s hockey, we’ll make sure it will not come at the expense of South Korean players,” Roh said.

The two Koreas have never fielded a joint team at a multi-sport competition, though they did so at the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships and the 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Azerbaijan`s Defense Ministry has said the Armenian armed forces continue to violate the ceasefire regime. “The Azerbaijani armed forces came under fire 126 times throughout the day,” the ministry said in a statement.

“The Azerbaijani army’s positions came under fire from Armenian villages, including Paravakar in Ijevan district, Nerkin Karmiraghbur and Chinari in Berd district,” the ministry said.

“The army’s positions also came under fire from the Armenian-occupied districts of Azerbaijan, including Goyarkh and Chilaburt villages in Tartar, Shuraabad, Taghibayli, Shikhlar, Bash Garvand, Javahirli, Abdinli, Garagashli, Sarijali, Yusifjanli and Marzili villages in Aghdam, Kuropatkino village in Khojavand, Ashaghi Veysalli, Gobu Dilagharda, Garvand, Garakhanbayli, Ashaghi Seyidahmadli, Gorgan, Kurdlar and Horadiz villages in Fuzuli, Nuzgar and Mehdili villages in Jabrayil, as well as unnamed hills in Tartar, Aghdam, Khojavand and Fuzuli,” the ministry added.

The U.S. Department of Defense confirmed Saturday that a missile alert to Hawaiians was sent by mistake, Anadolu Agency reports.

In a statement, the Pentagon said: “The U.S. Pacific Command has detected no ballistic missile threat to Hawaii. Earlier message was sent in error. State of Hawaii will send out a correction message as soon as possible.”